Everyone that has done fractals for a while knows that if you die during Mai Trin you can relog and Ellen Kiel will res you and you can walk to a certain spot to get back into the fight. It’s a bug that has been a part of this fractal since I can remember and it NEEDS TO BE FIXED.
I got kicked from a party just now for NOT RELOGGING FAST ENOUGH. One or two people went down and I died so I relogged to get back in and when I got back into the fractal a vote kick was called and I was kicked from the party. When I messaged one of the people in the party he said I was “a useless kitten who didn’t know how to relog.” So now this bug has gone from something that people use to make the fight easier to something that people think is required to beat the encounter and are actually kicking people who don’t relog or even just those who don’t relog fast enough.
Just PLEASE fix it. It sucks so much to get to the final fight in a full set of fractals and get kicked before getting the final loot.
Trin is already most annoying fight due to her bugs and timegating. So at least fix her awesome barrage and animation bugs first, or make your own groups. I’m sure you will enjoy sitting for hours in LFG.
I wonder how people mentioned bugs that making Mai Trin kill easier but nobody even mentioned famous barrage bugs when you can be killed outside of red circles by barrage projectiles, or even got hit by aoe when there is no circle nearby at all.
Also, sometimes Molten Berserker in molten boss fractal refuses to die and starts performing his sound wave attack even after his death.
Meta can change to 3 eles, since thief is not useful for IB burst anymore. And who on earth will want engi in party with its clunky damage rotation? Seriously expecting average player to be able do it properly, nah.
Ofc. Like one of my old friends, old-school Warcraft3 player said years ago, “That new Dota thing is a pathetic parody to real skill-based games, but kids gonna like it”.
I wanted to check the necro celestial signet build for pvp and went to meta battle.
I had a good laugh as I saw “Meta² elemetalist d/d” then the usual “Meta” builds. Ele are so powerful right now that they had to make a Meta squared just for them.
I don’t know if it has been there for a long time, but it’s pretty relevent of the pvp state ^^
Site and builds are perfectly fine. You just not used to meta.
In my experience, and why I prefer Cliffside for PUGs instead of Snowbind:
-If your group doesn’t have a thief, chances are someone will die while kiting the Svanirs, because most PUGs wont bother using situationally good skills for that part.
-Now you have wait for the whole group to OOC while avoiding ticks of frostbite (and agony if scale 40/50). Most PUGs wont return to the Svanir fireplace area where it’s easy to remove the frostbites and get OOC, and when they do, chances are someone will aggro the Svanir standing there and prolong the process.
-At the Elemental Source, some PUGs for some reason grow impatient and decide to burn it, while not making any effort to change to a more favorable build for the situation (i.e more reflects, stabilities, pulling the Ice elementals to the source for cleaves etc). This leads to the group getting KB around, aggroing a lot of Ice Elementals and quickly wiping.
-After wiping, some PUGs will just say “screw it” and yolo rush the Elemental Source with Icebows, trying to hit that glorious IB #4 or Endure Pain-Hundred Blades before dying. Repeat.
-Dark forest path is usually OK, despite most PUG warriors always going yolo ahead of the group even though there is a thief/engi ready to mass-stealth.
-Svanir Boss is OK.
Cliffside I usually only see problems with, curiously, the first Archdiviner fight. Most people still can’t react to his leap attack hitbox (Admittedly, the hitbox is kinda bogus), which leads to people getting downed, people trying to ress, and ressers getting downed in the process. 0 aegis given.
I have no idea why you having troubles with pug snowblind, its more than trivial. Elemental source takes like 3-4min of time, 1-2 wipes and guardian who placing WoR by cooldown.
Elementals can be completely ignored, and must be ignored, because killing them without competent premade is a waste of time, some pug always will screw up and die/aggro additional ones, straight burst to source is much faster and much more reliable.
You can build for more damaging conditions than burn, and even (gasp!) even covering your conditions with garbage ones! Like, you know, all condi classes in old days.
That quote from Chris basically says “Exploiting bad dungeon design is perfectly okay, but exploiting bad dungeon design is not allowed. Eh, I’m sure you guys know what I mean, so I won’t dedicate any more of my time explaining specifically. Just remember, we can ban you if you do the thing we just told you it’s okay and not okay to do, without warning~”
As usual – as long as your actions are not hurting other players or game economy – no one cares, and it will be as is until bug will be eventually fixed.
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if it will last another year or two.
There’s a difference between poor AI and purposely disabling all mechanics a boss has by bringing him to a place he shouldn’t be.
Mossman AI is fine, its the people that exploit him that make his AI bad.
Imo Anet should at least give the people that perform this act a 24 hour suspension, as a warning to others to not do it.
That, or fix the problem, but kitten actually fixing bugs, right?
Emm… disabling AI? Like, hacking Anet servers or smth? You run to him, attack, run back. While doing all those actions you are staying inside level, exactly where you have all rights to be by level design. Not on some bugged rock, tree, or outside of map. If boss not attacking you like he should – this is encounter designer fault, not player. Maybe he forgot to write evade code, maybe he missed a string and disabled underwater part of the encounter, maybe something else – but player have nothing to do with it. End of story.
If someone don’t like that – feel free to not use it, but stop lying about “exploits” and “cheats”.
Him having poor AI doesn’t make it not an exploit to abuse the issues with his design. In fact that’s pretty much the definition of exploit, to use your knowledge of somethings weaknesses to your benefit.
Poor AI is an exploit now? Oh, so everyone should be banned for corner pulling (poor AI is too stupid to keep distance), for PbAOE stacking (poor AI is too stupid to go out), for projectile reflects (poor AI is too stupid to avoid WoR or wait it out), for stealth (this is a big one, you avoiding fight completely!) and even for dodge (poor AI is too stupid to keep track on energy).
Oh my, so much exploits!
Umm… no, it is an exploit it is supposedly forbidden, and it violates rules. Look a few posts above at Chris Cleary’s quote. He lays down some general rules on what is and what isn’t allowed. What is a clever “exploitation”(for the lack of a better word but not meaning an exploit in the you’re in trouble sense) of the system and what is an exploit subject to recourse.
No its not. You not attacking him out of map, not stacking on some rock. You pulling him at perfectly legit location where you came from. If AI cant handle that – this is AI problem, not player.
Scrappers are unruly trash that are so insubordinate within the Legions that they’ve given trash duty, picking up metal and other junk around Ascalon and the Black Citadel. It is not a positive thing and no Charr would ever want to be a scrapper unless they were masochistic or liked being considered garbage. It’s the human equivalent of having a specialization called a “Trash Picker” or “Dumpster Diver”, or it’d be like having an Asura and using a specialization called the word “Bookah.”
Given that the poster character for the Engineer is a Charr I cannot wrap my mind around how this name happened. Either the narrative team wasn’t involved with the naming of the specializations (which I don’t understand), or they’ve forgotten their own lore.
The only excuse I see is that it’s “ironic” and that the scrappers are “rising up” to reclaim their name, but that’s not a good excuse when there could have been dozens of other names that wouldn’t have been internally inconsistent. It also requires rewrites of a ton of dialogue in the Black Citadel and Ascalon.
Players who farmed keys because they were too expensive to buy, cannot do math. It’s about the worst time investment you can make.
I was told you were able to get about 3 keys per hour. One key costs 90 gems if you buy 5. This is 90*1.25cent = $1.125. Per hour $3.375.
You are farming for the equivalent of $3,35 hourly wage. I don’t know how you get paid in your country, but here in Germany a cleaner for your household gets about 10 Euro per hour (assume $1=1Euro).
If you go farming keys for 12 hours, you get 3*12=36 keys.
But if you go working as cleaner for only 4 hours, you get $40, which also gets you about 36 keys. For the remaining 8 hours, you can go playing Guild Wars 2 and do whatever you like – you don’t have to waste your time and create and delete characters the whole day.
If you now tell me you would never pay $40 for black lion keys with money you earned the hard way in 4 hours as cleaner, why would you tell me you waste 12 hours of your life time by clicking through a computer program to get the same amount of keys? 4 hours as cleaner more wasted than 12 hours as nothing? This alone should tell you that you should never started farming in the first place.
Gee, why I’m playing a video games then, I should go work more instead. Such waste of time, oh my.
Key farming was dumb and never should’ve existed in the first place. Slaying it and increasing the Key drop rate to compensate was a very player-centric thing for ANet to have done. F2P has nothing to do with it.
I had like 6 BL keys drops over almost 7000hours, and never had enough scraps for a single ticket even with 2 100% completed world explorations.
So how exactly anet will compensate that, make drop like x1000 from current one?
Can someone tell me if pulling Mossman underwater is something forbiden to do on fractals? or I can join random teams and do it underwater and feel safe.
In my opinion this is a glitch and players should do this boss in his chamber.
Still moar fun doing this in right way.
This is not forbidden and this is not an exploit. Mossman lacks proper AI for that, but it have nothing to do with any kind of rule violation.
Does the LFG say no Necros or Rangers? If so, don’t join them because I don’t want to deal with those people.
Is there another Necro in group? If so, don’t join them because I can’t guarantee that the other Necro is even half as good as I am.
If the above two criteria are met, join group and ping ascended. Most people will look at my AP and assume I’m some kind of God walking amongst mere mortals anyway even though it’s completely irrelevant.
Not really complete list, because LFG also may say “meta” or even strict list of classes (“guard, PS war, 2 staff eles, thief” as example). In those cases, ranger and necro would be clearly off list too.
If you’ve read my previous posts you’d know im completely against any new content with how broken things are in the live game, besides i’m not even hyped for raids because having 10 people in my instance means I have even less responsibility with how things turn out, and given anets track record to disappoint i’m going to go ahead and take a wild guess and say raids will be the exact same as the current dungeons with double the hp on mobs and another 5 people in my instance.
Care to elaborate? In my experience to ask for.this party composition is the safest bet… by far. Sure, experience is the most important thing, and I had amazing runs with wierd parties… is just a mattrr of probabilities
In fact, safest bet is still good old 5 hammer guardians party. 20-25min per 50 fractal and almost complete invulnerability in most cases. Pugs dropped them after symbol bug nerf, but composition still working.
Because your typical pug ranger is:
>why I should use something other than LB
>why I should not use bear
>why I should not press LB4 every time when I see boss without defiance
>why I should stack
>what is Frost spirit
>what is Spotter
>haha party wipe and I’m still alive, that why I’m wear PVT, dumb zerker noobs
Point is that it’s better than current prestacking
But with a LOT more button mashing, and only thing that is really better than current one is a quickness. And quickness aspect pretty probably will be nerfed hard.
not sure anet can do it without hurt the q times, but they could do it, and lets us q up from the open world, so we would care less about the q time.
It will probably reduce queue time, because people who tired from those “innocent guys who just play with friends” will start returning. Just kick premades out of unranked.
I would prefer to see 20% banner recharge trait as baseline instead. Will add at least some diversity to warrior builds instead of forcing everyone and his mother into discipline line.
So you want to remove all counterplay?
You know, you can remove the poison on the downstate with your shouts (if you have the proper rune) to fully revive your teammate?
And then thief will press shortbow 4 again. So much for counterplay, huh.
Game went F2P and with the new league system, would be nice to see soloq again.
But think about those premades who will be not able to farm soloers and brain afk their way to top league, this is so cruel for them!
inb4 “we just playing with friends”, “soloers can kill us too, I swear this is not an advantage”, “you can have premade in your team too”
I wrote a whole post on how I hated the concept of having my favourite game mode stripped of its beauty.
It was at the character limit, but then I decided that it wouldn’t actually get read. So I’ll give a quick TL;DR version.
Fractals was a challenge, it was long and challenging group content that made people need some coordination to complete.
While it has been over simplified with cheesy tactics and gimmicky builds, don’t let that distract you from the fact that currently it is the best pve content in the game.
Instances like Cliffside, running a hammer to break seals and getting sent to the cage during the boss fights. The legendary shaman in the volcanic fractal, destroying the bubble while getting constantly immobilized by millions of little lava elementals.
These instances show the real potential of Gw2. These instances being in a random order made no 2 Fractals the same. They each had their own rules and their own challenge.
I know a lot of people dislike Fractals. It is a time consuming instance, it is a tough instance, especially for new people.
Did the reward structure need a revamp? Certainly. It’s not surprising it was changed. But now, being rewarded for completing 3×15 minute maps is going to be the same kitten 40+minute runs is just breaking my heart.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Feel free to gather “3 Cliffside+Trin only” parties, no one is going to stop you.
“As I mentioned before, I was the sole writer for the first installment. I wrote almost every word of that game. There was a small staff that worked on Factions. I did the main storyline and the cinematics, but there are actually many authors on that game. I started a story document for Nightfall before I left. Some of those elements made it into the shipped product. Others were rewritten.”
So we have a guy who created texts for game and some of those texts are made it to final version, others was rewritten/replaced. And you was trying to push him as “sole creator of first campaign”, to prove your point about some mythical “true GW1”, which was twisted later by evil charr-loving Anet writers.
Celestial builds only became viable when they changed strength runes. Might stacking is what makes celestial runnable at all. Boons are the problem.
Changing base game mechanics, potentially breaking things in ALL game modes – just to pat defenders of one amulet in one game mode? Lol, lol and lol.
No, just no.
currently we have: Inspiring Battle Standard
“Banners also grant regeneration to allies.”
Regeneration (3s): 390 health
Interval: 3s
then add the wrongly removed trait into it.
becoming:
Inspiring Battle Standard
“Banners apply their bonuses to a larger area and also grant regeneration to allies. Reduces recharge on banners.”
Radius Increase: 50%
Recharge Reduced: 20%
Regeneration (3s): 390 health
Interval: 3s
No idea where you’re going with this, what “signs” were you looking for? They actually built stone temples during their occupation of the Northlands, you can go see them yourself: Diessa Lowlands and Flame Temple Corridor. I’m sure stone pyramids would survive a long time, why weren’t any of those around pre-Searing?
Umm…yes? That’s what the Charr did, they fought with anyone they met. Met the Forgotten, went to war with ‘em. Found Dwarves, went to war. Saw Grawl, waged war.
Humans walked into their territory…you guessed it, waged war. Only this time they got beat because the humans had their gods helpin’. The reason the Charr tried to rolf-stomp all of humanity in 1070 wasn’t because the humans were living in a piece of their old territory that they named and build a civilization on. It was because they were the first ones to beat them and they wanted revenge. If all they wanted back was their land, they would have stopped after the Searing and settled it. But that’s not what happened is it? They tried to eradicate humans off the face of Tyria.
Umm…you’re arguing that there’s no evidence left of possible Charr settlements in Ascalon, because wood and hides won’t make ruins. Dot dot dot.
Whole settlement thing was part of “no signs of Charr was found”, not argumentation about some mythical great stone-made Charr cities.
There’s grawl there still because the grawl, unlike the Charr, didn’t make it their mission in life to exterminate humans. Not to mention they didn’t/don’t have anything resembling armies, they are meant to be portrayed as a local countryside danger, not as an invasion force. Humans don’t go to war over anything remotely harmful that’s inside their borders, that’s the Charr remember?
And Charr was all about extermination of humans in first war? That would be great Ascalonian propaganda feat, for sure, “we righteously conquered those lands from Evil Beasts before they did Evil Extermination!”, but sadly, you pulled this out of thin air. Charr ruthlessness in second war was a direct result of human actions in first war, when all Ascalon Charr population vanished.
You’re right about Ascalons living north of the wall, but you’re assuming that the Charr were always there too…which wasn’t the case. Just like the Charr had swathes of land that they didn’t necessarily live in, the Ascalon lands in the north Basin were sparsely settled. But that didn’t mean Charr were there, it still was part of the Ascalon kingdom. The humans drove them out of the whole Basin almost 1200 years before the Searing, and they didn’t come back until right before the Searing.
I also wouldn’t trust the wiki too much. GW1 wiki said the Wall took less the 200 years to build, the GW2 wiki says 900. Odd.
And yet Ascalon expansion to north was a fact. Placing a new capital beyond the Wall was clearest sign of it.
Yes, it does. GW1 creators had ruins all over the place
Ruins are not part of that topic. Wood and hides wont make ruins.
arguing a case for genocide based solely on the absence of settlements
Based on absence of EVERYTHING charr. You even can find lots of grawl in pre-Searing Ascalon, and yet all charr are gone.
